Ottawa Chapter
Next Meeting
Date: Thursday November 2
Time: 6:pm
Location: TBA
Presentation: TBA
Business Items:
- TBA
- Eat, Drink, Be Mary
About Ottawa OSGEO
The OGUG (Ottawa Grass Users Group) and OMSUG (Ottawa Map Server Users Group) have had a preliminary joint meeting and decided to pursue merging and operating as an OSGeo local chapter in the Ottawa (National Capital Region) area. While not yet officially designated as an OSGeo chapter, we are "in formation".
The Ottawa Chapter of OSGEO is formed by the combination the local active communities of three OSGEo projects: Mapserver, GRASS and Mapbuilder
The Ottawa MapServer Users Group (OMSUG) began meeting during the winter of 2003. With a strong local user base in Ottawa, representing many diverse users and developers, these meetings provide a unique opportunity for members to meet and discuss how MapServer is being leveraged in Ottawa and ways we can work together to grow its use in the region.
OGUG formed in June of 2005 as a network of GIS practitioners interested in incorporating or replacing their proprietary GIS workflow with Open Source GIS Solutions. OGUG aimed to be a central body of knowledge and expertise for the GRASS GIS Community in the Ottawa area.
Mission
The OSGeo Ottawa Chapter exists to provide support for local users of Open Source Geospatial software, and to promote the goals and projects of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The Chapter is focused on the National Capital Region around Ottawa with face to face meetings providing networking, support and educational opportunities to the local members.
Objectives
- Monthly face to face meetings
- Networking
- Presentations
- Workshops and Tutorials
- User to user support
- Job Opportunities
- HowTo's
- Colaborative Projects
- Documentation
- Local Data Sets
- Supporting OSGEO projects at large
- Regional Events
- Conference
- Demonstrations
- Communication
- Active mailing List
- Content Rich Wiki
- Outreach to local Geo community
- Documented Activities
Chapter Sections
Ottawa Chapter Home: The WIKI Home Page for the Ottawa OSGEO Chapter.
Chapter Admin: Information of interest to the chapter at large concerning meetings, events, charter,etc.
MapServer: Information of interest to local MAPSERVER users (including old OMSUG content)
GRASS: Information of interest to local GRASS users (including old OGUG content)
MapBuilder: Information of interest to local MAPBUILDER users
Local Chapter Directory: Listing of companies, people, universities and government departments involved with or using OSGeo projects
Ottawa OSGEO Media Coverage: Links or snippets of media featuring activities of Ottawa OSGeo from various Sources
Chapter Resources
Data: Free and open data created by local chapter members
Tutorials: Tutorials supporting related FOSS4G projects
Related Links: A Clearing House of related links
Contributing to this wiki
How To Write WIKI
Check out WikiPedia, where else. This is a great resource for many wiki writing tips
Page Naming Conventions
Since the whole wiki uses a flat file structure instead of a directory structure there is a need to organize the pages relavant to our chapter's activities. To get this wiki area started I chose a simple page structure format
PREFIX: To keep the site clean and to make it easier to locate all WIKI pages connected with the Ottawa Chapter please not the appropriate prefix. Use this prefix when creating new pages.
Prefix= Ottawa_Chapter
The logic:
- Ottawa_Chapter_(Project Area)_(Topic)_(Sub Topic)
Examples:
- Ottawa_Chapter_OSGEO_meetings_072106
- Ottawa_Chapter_GRASS_Datasets